#Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

G. K. Chesterton

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incontrollabili

Non esistono parole adeguate per spiegarvi perché vi ho condotto qui; si tratta di una di quelle passioni incontrollabili, come saltar giù da un dirupo o innamorarsi. da G. K. Chesterton, L'uomo che fu Giovedì

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1328- La idea que no trata de convertirse en palabras es una mala idea; la palabra que no trata de convertirse en acción es, a su vez, una mala palabra.

(Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, born 29 May 1874

Image: Full of ideas - Original artwork by Jean-Francois Segura.

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Erst wenn man das Schlimmste über einen Menschen kennt, kennt man auch sein Bestes.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton,  engl. Schriftsteller & Journalist

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G. K. Chesterton: Granted gratitude

Image via Wikipedia “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” ~ G. K. Chesterton.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~ L'uomo che fu Giovedì

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Son yirmi yıldır kitaplarımızda düzen veya özgürlük idealleri inatla azaldı; parlamentolarımızda zeka ve güzel söz hırsı azaldı. Edebiyat kasıtlı olarak daha az politik hale geldi; siyaset kasıtlı olarak az edebi hale geldi. Nesnelerin ilişkisine dair genel teoriler böylece her ikisinden de çıkarılmıştır ve şu soruyu soracak bir konumdayız: "Bu püskürmeyle ne kazandık veya kaybettik? Ahlakçıyı ve filozofu bir kenara attığımız için edebiyat daha mı iyi, siyaset daha mı iyi?" Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~Sapkınlar Heretikler

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• Gilbert Keith Chesterton •

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candelabro

Ci sono guglie di pietra che salgono diritte a perpendicolo, ad altezze tali che nemmeno le aquile vi giungono; guglie così alte che sembrano attirare le stelle e raccogliersele intorno, come gli scogli marini che raccolgono anche la più tenue fosforescenza. [...] Potremmo quasi fantasticare che la montagna si ramifichi sopra di noi come se fosse un albero di pietra, portando tutte quelle luci cosmiche come un enorme candelabro. da G. K. Chesterton, Uomovivo

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Father Brown Radio dramas

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"Le nommé Jeudi" est un roman captivant, mystèrieux et philosophique de l'écrivain anglais Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

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i think this essay excerpt provided to us by the summer course i am doing as an advanced reading is pretty amazing.

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There are certain sequences or developments (cases of one thing following another), which are, in the true sense of the word, reasonable. They are, in the true sense of the word, necessary. Such are mathematical and merely logical sequences. We in fairyland (who are the most reasonable of all creatures) admit that reason and that necessity.

For instance, if the Ugly Sisters are older than Cinderella, it is (in an iron and awful sense) necessary that Cinderella is younger than the Ugly Sisters. There is no getting out of it. Haeckel may talk as much fatalism about that fact as he pleases: it really must be. If Jack is the son of a miller, a miller is the father of Jack. Cold reason decrees it from her awful throne: and we in fairyland submit. If the three brothers all ride horses, there are six animals and eighteen legs involved: that is true rationalism, and Fairyland is full of it.

But as I put my head over the hedge of the elves and began to take notice of the natural world, I observed an extraordinary thing. I observed that learned men in spectacles were talking of the actual things that happened—dawn and death and so on—as if they were rational and inevitable. They talked as if the fact that trees bear fruit were just as necessary as the fact that two and one trees make three. But it is not. There is an enormous difference by the test of fairyland; which is the test of the imagination. You cannot imagine two and one not making three. But you can easily imagine trees not growing fruit; you can imagine them growing golden candlesticks or tigers hanging on by the tail.

These men in spectacles spoke much of a man named Newton, who was hit by an apple, and who discovered a law. But they could not be got to see the distinction between a true law, a law of reason, and the mere fact of apples falling. If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple. That is a true necessity: because we [p.91] cannot conceive the one occurring without the other. But we can quite well conceive the apple not falling on his nose; we can fancy it flying ardently through the air to hit some other nose, of which it had a more definite dislike, We have always in our fairy tales kept this sharp distinction between the science of mental relations, in which there really are laws, and the science of physical facts, in which there are no laws, but only weird repetitions.

In fairyland we avoid the word “law”; but in the land of science they are singularly fond of it.A law implies that we know the nature of the generalisation and enactment; not merely that we have noticed some of the effects. If there is a law that pick-pockets shall go to prison, it implies that there is an imaginable mental connection between the idea of prison and the idea of picking pockets. And we know what the idea is. We can say why we take liberty from a man who takes liberties. But we cannot say why an egg can turn into a chicken any more than we can say why a bear could turn into a fairy prince. As ideas, the egg and the chicken are further off each other than the bear and the prince; for no egg in itself suggests a chicken, whereas some princes do suggest bears.

Granted, then, that certain transformations do happen, it is essential that we should regard them in the philosophic manner of fairy tales, not in the unphilosophic manner of science and the “Laws of Nature.” When we are asked why eggs turn to birds or fruits fall in autumn, we must answer exactly as the fairy godmother would answer if Cinderella asked her why mice turned to horses or her clothes fell from her at twelve o’clock. We must answer that it is magic. It is not a “law,” for we do not understand its general formula. It is not a necessity, for though we can count on it happening practically, we have no right to say that it must always happen. All the terms used in the science books, “law, “necessity,” “order,” “tendency,” and so on, are really unintellectual because they assume an inner synthesis which we do not possess. 

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Essay "The Logic of Elfland by Gilbert Keith Chesterton"

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Chesterton'ın Çiti, değişime karşı dikkatli olmamız gerektiğini hatırlatan güçlü bir metafordur. Erkek giyim sektöründe satış yapan siz değerli çalışanlar için bu kavramı şu şekilde düşünebiliriz:

Satışta başarılı olmak, sadece ürün bilgisi veya ikna kabiliyeti ile sınırlı değildir. Tıpkı Chesterton'ın Çiti gibi, mevcut satış teknikleri ve stratejileri de zaman içinde belirli nedenlerle oluşmuştur. Bu teknikler, müşteri ihtiyaçlarını anlamak, pazar trendlerini takip etmek ve marka değerini yükseltmek için emek ve zaman harcanarak geliştirilmiştir.

Yeni bir satış stratejisi veya teknik uygulamadan önce, mevcut olanın neden var olduğunu ve nasıl işlediğini anlamak önemlidir. Bu, sadece satış hedeflerine ulaşmak için değil, aynı zamanda müşteri memnuniyetini ve sadakatini artırmak için de kritiktir.

Chesterton'ın Çiti bize şunu öğretir: Yenilik yapmadan önce mevcut durumu iyice anlayın. Müşterilerinizle kurduğunuz ilişkiler, sunduğunuz hizmet kalitesi ve ürün bilginiz, hepsi birer çittir. Bu çitleri yıkmadan önce, onların değerini ve işlevselliğini anlayın. Böylece, her bir değişiklik, sadece satış rakamlarınızı değil, aynı zamanda müşteri deneyimini de iyileştirecektir.

İşte bu yüzden, her bir satış temsilcisi olarak, Chesterton'ın Çiti'ni hatırlayın ve değişiklik yapmadan önce mevcut durumu anlamaya zaman ayırın. Bu, sadece kendi profesyonel gelişiminize katkıda bulunmakla kalmaz, aynı zamanda tüm ekip olarak başarıya ulaşmamızı sağlar. İyi satışlar! 🎩👔

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“The test of democracy is not whether the people vote, but whether the people rule.”

G.K. Chesterton